Tejas Gawande
@tejas
Co-founder, Chronicle. Product geek.
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I’ll first note the Latin phrase solvitur ambulando meaning “it is solved by walking.” The phrase is attributed to both St. Augustine and the Greek philosopher, Diogenes. The sense of it, as I take it, is that when you are stuck on something, you should get up and take a walk. By the act of walking you somehow allow your mind to think more freely... See more
The Ambling Mind
Walk to allow your mind to think more freely and creatively
How to Use AI to Find Profitable Niches on the Internet
Brainstorming with AI
In a pre-AI world, in order to build an application, you needed to reduce your idea to a process—a set of rules by which your software would operate to accomplish the goal you set. Sometimes this was easy; for example, a customer relationship manager like Salesforce is naturally reducible to rules.
In a post-AI world, you can build applications for... See more
In a post-AI world, you can build applications for... See more
Dan Shipper • Five New Thinking Styles for Working With Thinking Machines
Process vs. intuition
The right way is the hard way
Daniel McGinn • Jerry Seinfeld: Comedian, Innovator, Micromanager
Where are you losing by trying to save? Where are you taking the cheap path rather than embracing the expensive?
Ask yourself these questions, make the necessary change, and start falling in love with the hard way.
Writing increases your rate of revelation. This is true irrespective of the subject because writing is a process of reflection, assertion, and iteration.
Writing clarifies your own ideas. Writing begets new ideas too. Writing lets you explore ideas in depth even if you won’t have time to act on them all. Writing shows people how you think and lets... See more
Writing clarifies your own ideas. Writing begets new ideas too. Writing lets you explore ideas in depth even if you won’t have time to act on them all. Writing shows people how you think and lets... See more
Anu • Writer-Builders
Writing as an act of discovering and connecting new ideas
Taste is eating software. Taste is the new weapon.
Anu Atluru • Taste is Eating Silicon Valley.
Utility plus taste is the foundation of software now
The mathematical genius Alexander Grothendieck once had a metaphor for solving problems. He suggested that instead of forcing open an impossibly hard kernel with a hammer and chisel, one should simply let it sit in water and wait. Over time, the shell softens and opens with ease. This is also true in writing; time is the only non-substitutable... See more
Epiphanies Come From Waiting
Epiphanies come from waiting. You need patience, to let your ideas transform into what they could be.
Six neurotransmitters make up life. Need to focus on all of them to ensure overall happiness and flow
Research as leisure activity is directed by passions and instincts . It’s fundamentally very personal: What are you interested in now ? It’s fine, and maybe even better, if the topic isn’t explicitly intellectual or academic in nature. And if one topic leads you to another topic that seems totally unrelated, that’s something to get excited... See more
Celine Nguyen • research as leisure activity
Research as leisure: A desire to ask and answer questions, a commitment to evidence, an understanding of what already exists, an output, a certain degree of contemporary relevance, and a community